This course will provide an opportunity to explore theoretical issues that
have captured the imagination of ethnomusicology from the late 1800s to the
present. We will focus in particular on how phenomenology in its various
forms has been employed, beginning with the comparative musicologists of
Berlin and moving to early twenty-first century. We will read books that
discuss phenomenology in related disciplines as well as in ethnomusicology.

The format of the course will be that of a seminar with reading consisting
of approximately one full-length book a week. Each student will be expected
to write a paper of approximately twenty-five pages and to submit that paper
for publication to a referred journal at the end of the semester.